Fashionistas you have arrived 3-25-03 - 10-3-03

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
As someone who was very recently on the receiving end of some god-awful wedding gifts and who has a house way too full of stuff (gee, honey, do we really need FIVE FUCKING BEDS?) I would have really appreciated a gift certificate from The Container Store. Goodness knows, I've been over there enough.

AM(why can't men part with outdated stereo components?)M

Heck, why not go all the way and get a gift certificate to a self-storage unit?

[taxwonk]

Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
what's the current feeling on womyn-centric name-calling?

You fucking pussy. You are SO my bitch.

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally posted by robustpuppy
Women are not allowed to get old in our culture -- they become invisible when they reach middle age. That does not happen to men to the same degree until they reach retirement age. Geezer and old fart are also ageist, of course, but they just don't carry the same weight.

I don't think it's always been true. It's a trap to think that older women were irrelevant before 1960; in reality, they were quite powerful but had tightly confined spheres of influence, as did men, that were dictated by tradition and enforced by social disapproval. Youth and beauty were coins that had to be invested early and wisely, usually to make a favorable alliance with a man. But once that alliance was made, age and declining beauty meant less --- even in the lower classes, where society rules were less relevant.

1960 marked the time in which women began asserting a right to participate outside their traditional spheres (home, church, "society"). Nothing really changed other than women's "right" to direct their collective feminine social disapproval against those who dared to choose their sphere of influence. In other words, women aren't supposed to criticize the choices of other women any more. (That's probably a good thing.)

What I'm getting as is that before 1960, women did not really lose power by aging. Indeed, they probably gained it, so long as they had invested their youth and beauty wisely enough while (and if) they had it. It seems a rather odd thing that the social movement that gave women more freedom to choose where they could exert power but could not correspondingly increase the amount of time they had in which to make traditional relationship alliances.

Anyhoo, it strikes me as ironic that the primary benefit of the sexual revolution was to prolong women's independence, but we didn't change the social structures that previously permitted a woman to make relationship investments early, and once. We've left a lot of women less powerful in the relationship marketplace when they want to marry at 38. If I were a woman, I'd be pissed that no one saw this coming.

(This was just a moment of clarity for me. A chorus of women on the board may now say "Duh.")

Originally posted by Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)
Heck, why not go all the way and get a gift certificate to a self-storage unit?

Because neither would appreciate a coffin on their wedding day.

[pretermitted_child]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
I can get to the list of boards, but can't open any boards or messages. HTTP 500 error (whatever that means).

Well, the status code definition in the RFC isn't illuminating. I think it's one of those errors where even the server doesn't know what's going on.

[Mister_Ruysbroeck]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
Somewhat apropos is the word that women hate the most, and it's not the c-word nor is it insulting. Although if it is combined with the c-word its effectiveness is multiplied (although the c-word or p-word or any slang word for the vagina adds effectiveness).

Just say it. Jesus. Did we move for nothing?

Cunt. Pussy. Stink-ditch.

Just fucking say it.

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The word is "moist".

I love that word.

[Not Bob]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
why can't men part with outdated stereo components?

Honey, is that you?

Ahem. Because that huge Pioneer amplifer (with a seperate receiver, natch) and the JVC turntable with the missing stylus cost us a lot of our youthful hours washing dishes at the Podunkville Country Club and Snack Emporium.

[ABBAKiss]

Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
The word is "moist".

I knew Mr. Kiss was the one for me when he used this word while playing dirty scrabble. This was the same game where we had to call friends to determine the proper spelling of "queaf", which was of the utmost importance because the Q was on triple word score.

[Anne Elk]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Just say it. Jesus. Did we move for nothing?

Cunt. Pussy. Stink-ditch.

Just fucking say it.

Moist.

I love that word.

Must be a guy thing. And the male equivalent would be what? Seeping, drippy, whoops.

[Did you just call me Coltrane?]

Originally posted by Mister_Ruysbroeck
Just say it. Jesus. Did we move for nothing?

Cunt. Pussy. Stink-ditch.

Just fucking say it.



I love that word.

I wasn't afraid of saying it. I just wanted people to say the two words together to themselves w/out me numbing it down first.

Cunt

Pussy

Snatch!

[taxwonk]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by robustpuppy

So bitch is not such an insult anymore. And it can be applied to men, too. [QUOTE]

I'll go along with that. For instance, I think Atticus is a bitch for bringing this whole thread up.

But as for hag, well, let's face it -- nobody wants to be old.

The word "hag," therefore, reflects a double bias. I'm thinking of a post on the old FB where I think Sebby asked (I apologize if it was not he) why people liked Sex and the City so much. He wondered why people would care about a bunch of over the hill women. Now, Carrie and Charlotte and Miranda are all supposed to be about 35. Is 35 over the hill? I read somewhere that it was the new 25.

r(Ma'am? The worst fucking insult of all. Unless you're in the South, I guess.)p

What's wrong with being old? Personally, I like it. Young punks give you their seat on the bus, you can drink real martinis and not appear pompous. Nobody assumes your abusing your xanax if you take a lot of naps.....


What was the question?

[purse junkie]

"Bitch" is always sexist and I hardly ever use it. Used against a man, it's a negative implication that the guy is like a woman--horrors! Used against a woman, it's almost always a punishment for someone who steps out of her proper place.

"C--t" is even worse and I never, ever, ever use it except about...well, she knows who she is.

My college roommate had a habit of yelling "TWAT!" at the top of her lungs. This was disconcerting to those who thought that (1) it was unnecessary at a women's college to announce that you had one or (2) that it was an insult directed at someone specific or (3) that it was a request for some action from anyone in hearing distance.

"Asshole" I always thought of as gender-neutral. Right now though I prefer "skank."

[AngryMulletMan]

Originally posted by Not Bob
Honey, is that you?

Ahem. Because that huge Pioneer amplifer (with a seperate receiver, natch) and the JVC turntable with the missing stylus cost us a lot of our youthful hours washing dishes at the Podunkville Country Club and Snack Emporium.

OK, I understand that part. But when you go out and buy a brand new surround sound system with what seems like 23 speakers in the living room, why do we need all of those old huge components that we are NOT EVEN USING?

And the old car stereo, why do we need that? If you can get rid of an entire car, I don't understand why we need to keep the stereo.

And the cassette recorders? Who saves those?

Oh and don't forget the EIGHT TRACK TAPES!

Oh, and the speaker wire, don't even get me going on that. We must have three thousand yards of speaker wire. In shoe boxes.

AM(sob)M

[bilmore]

Originally posted by AngryMulletMan
OK, I understand that part. But when you go out and buy a brand new surround sound system with what seems like 23 speakers in the living room, why do we need all of those old huge components that we are NOT EVEN USING?

And the old car stereo, why do we need that? If you can get rid of an entire car, I don't understand why we need to keep the stereo.

And the cassette recorders? Who saves those?

Oh and don't forget the EIGHT TRACK TAPES!

Oh, and the speaker wire, don't even get me going on that. We must have three thousand yards of speaker wire. In shoe boxes.

AM(sob)M

Because you might need them someday.

[Mmmm, Burger (C.J.)]

Originally posted by Anne Elk
Must be a guy thing. And the male equivalent would be what? Seeping, drippy, whoops.

Tumescent;

Engorged;

Rigid.


Nothing wrong with moist. Dunkin' Hines doesn't advertise their dry cakes, do they?